ARTICLES BY CHRIS BRUMMITT

No wreckage found near oil slicks

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

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Militias pay big price in Pakistan

MATANI, Pakistan - Tribal militias allied with the government helped block a Taliban advance in this corner of northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border, but their success has come at a price: the empowerment of untrained, unaccountable private armies that could yet emerge as a threat of their own.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

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Crises test U.S.-allied Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Not for the first time, Pakistan appears to be teetering on the edge with a government unable to cope.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO